Yesterday I visited the Ansel Adams/Georgia O’Keefe exhibit at SFMOMA. I found great peace in learning how these two artists found so much worth noticing in nature. I endeavor to foster such focus and reverence in myself, to spend time alone with the elements, seeing with the heart….
There was one particular set of 3 photos by Adams called ‘Snow Sequence I, II, and III.’ He captured 3 different close-ups of snow receding from the earth, and the particular patterns the melting snowline created that mirrored the ground beneath. These images more than any in the exhibit reminded me that there is beauty everywhere, even (and especially) in the death of things. I couldn’t find a copy of these images to share here, so instead have inserted ‘Frozen Lake and Cliffs’ – a stunning, subjective, almost unreal image, also of retreating winter. Joseph thinks this photo would be an amazing backdrop for a theater production.
Frozen Lake and Cliffs, by Ansel Adams
If you get a chance, check out this exhibit through September 7th. Also of great interest is the exhibit of Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’ – all eighty something photos that made up his groundbreaking book.
Gotta love art.
